The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 155
The Prince was beside himself with grief, and in his despair he jumped right down from the tower, and, though he escaped with his life, the thorns among which he fell pierced his eyes out.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be, jump, escape, fall, pierce, despair · To what, where: despair, pierced eyes
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 grief | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grief | cop |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 himself | case |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 was | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 grief | case |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 jumped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 jumped | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 despair | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 despair | nmod:poss |
| 12 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jumped | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 jumped | nsubj |
| 14 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grief | conj |
| 15 | right | right | ADV | _ | 16 down | advmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 jumped | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 tower | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 jumped | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 escaped | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 escaped | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 escaped | punct |
| 23 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 escaped | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 escaped | nsubj |
| 25 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 grief | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 escaped | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 thorns | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 thorns | det |
| 31 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grief | conj |
| 32 | among | among | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 fell | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 fell | nsubj |
| 35 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 thorns | acl:relcl |
| 36 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 eyes | amod |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 38 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 fell | obj |
| 39 | out | out | ADV | _ | 35 fell | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 grief | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Prince | with grief and the thorns | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jump | past | Prince | Prince's despair | from the tower; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in despair=Trajectory from tower=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | escape | past | Prince | with Prince's life | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fall | past | Prince | Prince's pierced eyes | among the thorns; out property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient eye=Result | |||
| 5 | pierce | participle | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | despair | Prince | nom despair «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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